Alexander co-founded RSe Consulting, a public sector consultancy specialising in Local Government. He sold RSe Consulting to Tribal Group in 2008 and continued there for a year as a Director for Local Government specialising in supporting public sector organisations to work effectively in partnership and cut costs. Alexander is currently writing a book about the… Read more »
Amanda Levete is an architect and director of AL_A. A seminal influence in the world of architecture and design, Amanda Levete has spent her career exploring the transformative potential of space through a number of remarkable buildings and furniture pieces. Her interest lies in the physical and metaphysical, the organic and the man-made – working… Read more »
Dal joined the Metropolitan Police Service in July 1983, since then he has been posted to various boroughs and units including Haringey, Islington, Redbridge, New Scotland Yard, District Support Unit, a six month secondment to Zimbabwe, Hendon Police College, House of Commons, Camden as an Inspector for five years, Enfield, Commission for Racial Equality, Tower… Read more »
Ian has been a partner with international law firm Allen and Overy for over 20 years. He has spent his entire career with the firm advising on complex business transactions and became a trustee of the Young Foundation in March 2010. He has been a boardroom adviser to UK and US corporate clients and has… Read more »
Kirsteen Tait advises the Paul Hamlyn Foundation on its Supported Options Fund for young undocumented migrants which she helped to set up under their Social Welfare programme. She is currently a trustee (formerly chair) of Most Mira (Bridge of Peace) a charity which provides arts based opportunities jointly for Serb and Bosnian young people in… Read more »
Malcolm Dean is the Guardian’s lead writer on social affairs and assistant editor. He has worked on the paper for over 30 years, writing its editorials on health and social policy for over 20 of them. For the last 15 years he has also written regular London dispatches for the Lancet. He was seconded by… Read more »
Marcial Boo is a director of the National Audit Office responsible for strategy, communications and knowledge management. He was previously responsible for the policy and research output of the Audit Commission and spent seven years in central government where he was responsible in the Home Office for crime reduction, including the national street crime initiative… Read more »
Michele Giddens is an Executive Director of Bridges Ventures, an investment company that aims to achieve both financial returns and social and environmental benefits. She has over 15 years of international development and social finance experience. She was an Investment Officer with International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group… Read more »
Naomi Eisenstadt CB, was the first Director of the Sure Start Unit, which she ran for 7 years. The Unit was responsible for delivering the government’s commitment to free nursery education places for all three and four year olds, the national childcare strategy, and programmes aiming to reduce the gap in outcomes between children living… Read more »
Tim Allen is the managing director of the communications consultancy Portland. Tim founded Portland in 2001 after a career spanning business and political communications. He spent six years working for Tony Blair in Opposition and then in 10 Downing Street. He was a key media adviser during the 1997 election campaign and then served as… Read more »